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Binti (Nnedi Okorafor, 2015) - Africanfuturism and the Meduse
Hay, Jonathan
Hay, Jonathan
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2024-10-31
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In the uncharted territory of space, humans ourselves become alien. This understanding is central to Nnedi Okorafor’s Nebula and Hugo award-winning novella Binti (2015) and its sequels Home (2017) and The Night Masquerade (2018). Through the interactions between humans and the trilogy’s “alien” Meduse, Okorafor’s text makes unfamiliar and radically expands the familiar territory of race. Typically, aliens in science fiction are rigidly defined as either enemies or friends of humanity. Yet, the Meduse transcend this simplistic dualism, and therefore comprise a central component of Binti’s Africanfuturist meditation on race.
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Hay, J. (2024). Binti (Nnedi Okorafor, 2015) - Africanfuturism and the Meduse. In E. Gomel & S. Bacon (Eds.), Aliens: A Companion. Peter Lang.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published in [Aliens: A Companion] edited by [Elana Gomel & Simon Bacon] in the series [Genre Fiction and Film Companions].
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Genre Fiction and Film Companions; volume 15
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